.2. The withdrawal order was immediately countermanded by a high level official in the government, although without the President's knowing.  Three days later the President was shot, by which the cancelation of the war was cancelled.

.3. The countermanding of Kennedy's order, which effectively recommitted the nation to war, was immediately signed by the incoming President, President Lyndon B. Johnson.  The recommitment was in short order followed by a dramatic escalation of the war from a 12,000 man U.S. involvement, into a 500,000 man commitment by the end of 1967.  This escalation represents a fifty fold increase in commitment over five years.

.4. Once the war was fully under way, the same official that countermanded President Kennedy's withdrawal order, then started the peace movement in the U.S. with initial funding from an oligarchic foundation.  The peace movement was centered on opposition to the government, but was carefully structured not to expose the causes of the war.  Rather, it was centered on a drug, rock, and sex counter-culture.
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Lyndon LaRouche pointed out in his speech, that in the historical case of the escalation of the Vietnam War all the requirements were present that are typically associated with a carefully planned destruction of a nation from within.  Nor is it surprising, against this background, that the nation has not yet fully recovered from the effects of this war.  The atrocities still weigh heavily on its conscience.  Indeed, great atrocities were committed on both sides of the conflict, in fact the so-called 'success' of the American involvement was measured by a body count tally of those who were murdered on any given day.

Lyndon LaRouche suggested that the plan was immensely successful, as the counter-culture is still flourishing to the present day.  If anything, the counter-culture has increased its destruction on the nation's consciousness.  All in all, the Vietnam War has been extremely effective as a means for destroying the United States from within.

The U.S. nation came out this war fundamentally altered, and economically undermined.  Its gentleness, its progressive spirit, its supportive attitude, its optimism, were all diminished.  The financial cost, too, had mounted up to $130,000,000,000.  This sum made the nation's commitment to its space program appear minute, notwithstanding, it was the space program that provided the many spin-off benefits to the economy and raised the status of man, while the war provided nothing but destruction and demanded unspeakable sacrifices.

It might have been this certainty for social disaster that President Kennedy foresaw and had tried to avoid, for which he was shot.  Evidently, the oligarchy wanted to grasp this golden opportunity to attempt anew what it had failed to achieve during the Civil War, and what it had failed again to accomplish during the early years of the Cold War of nuclear arms confrontation in which President Kennedy refused in the final moments to play along in the oligarchy's game of a planned nuclear attack on the Soviet people.

Indeed, from the oligarchy's standpoint, the man had to go.  Too much was at stake for the oligarchy.  The man had stood up for humanity and had threatened to unleash a new Renaissance.  This was an arch sin in the eyes of all those who wanted to shut humanity down.  And the President's brother, likewise, who would have stood in the way of the planned reigniting of the war, had he been elected President, had to be killed as well.  And so he was.

The details that Lyndon LaRouche presented, of Kennedy's order to withdraw, and the countermanding of this order by a high level government official, appear not in any history books.  They were evidently well hidden and covered up as state secrets.  One would certainly expect such details to be hidden, for had they become known at the time, they would have dramatically altered the outcome of the war and led to an entirely different direction in the history of the United States from this point on.  Nor do the details actually matter a great deal for proving that the war was intended for the internal destruction of the U.S. and its people.  What the history books do provide is actually sufficient in itself to support this recognition.

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche